30.

It's official.  I'm old.  I am no longer in my 20's, and it's kind of a weird sensation.  

30.  I'm in my 30's!!

Last  year, Will took me on a fun boat ride around Lake Washington for my birthday, and he was so awesome to do again this year. Only this time we invited my parents to come with us.

We packed a picnic, and stopped the boat for a while and munched away, while then driving into Seattle into Lake Union.

Having grown up spending a lot of time on boats, I couldn't have possibly spent my birthday in any funner more enjoyable way.

Utah and Michele Getting Married

This is my very good friend, Michele.  She and I have been friends for a couple of years - and we met by way of common interest:  music.  She too is a pianist and composer.

She recently got married, and I so I was able to fly down to Utah and attend her wedding.  Will wasn't able to come because he had to work, and so it was a solo trip without him.

Michele looked and felt beautiful in her wedding dress...

After the wedding, I was able to spend some time with my brothers that I rarely get to see. Stephen and his wife have a 1 year old little girl, Mackenzie, who is totally cute.  And I also got to see my G&G Southworth.

Mike's wife, Emmy...who is so skinny! She's worked so hard to lose all of her weight from pregnancies and she is tiny now.

Isn't this the cutest - cousins!  That is my nephew, James, and niece Mackenzie.  Almost the same age.

Moving - a Promotion

So, as you know, the past almost 2 years we've been apartment managing for a 40 unit complex as the resident managers.  It's been great, for the most part. Of course it's had its stresses, but our tenants have been great and we've been able to actually pay off a lot of debt and save from doing so.

A few months ago, we found out that the complex was being bought out and turned into condominiums.  It was a really stressful time because we weren't allowed to say anything about it to our residents, and we were even paid to keep our mouths shut, in a sense (we received a rather nice bonus for not saying anything).  We were given the option of staying on as the managers, but we would be working for a new owner and not being paid as much.

We had dealt with the new owner on several ocassions, and it would be safe to say we were not impressed with his integrity and work ethic.  So we opted to not stay.  Our management company therefore actually offered us a job as resident managers of a brand new complex they were just finishing up construction on about an hour south of where we were at.  It was more money, but also over twice the amount of units.  75 to be exact.  But we accepted the offer and decided to try it.

I have to say I am a bit nervous because it is a lot more responsibility.  But the perks are that we now have a 3 bedroom apartment, are getting paid more, I have an office instead of having to do business out of our living room, and did I mention our apartment is super cute?

Here is our new living room after we have dumped all of our stuff in it.  Before moving in, Will and I spent a lot of time choosing paint and then painting accent walls everywhere - one of the perks of being the manager.

The living room pretty much done - accept for hanging the mirror on the wall.

I've always wanted red walls, but didn't want to go with too dramatic of a red, so we therefore chose this more rust/pinkish shade of the red family.

I am so proud of my painting skills and how the two colors met on that corner that goes up the wall.

Looking down the hallway towards the other bedrooms, and bathrooms.  Love that we have 9 foot ceilings too.

The hallway guest bathroom....

Our bedroom, which isn't exactly finished being unpacked yet.

Master bathroom...

And that's it for the tour!

Renee Fleming Concert

My best friend, Erika, is an amazing vocalist.  She had tickets to go see Renee Fleming with the Seattle Symphony and asked if I would be her date. Would I!!  She didn't even have to ask.

We had an amazing night out.  We ended up sitting about 3rd row front, and right next to Renee's best friend who kept telling us fun little tidbits about the two of them growing up.  It was a really wonderful classy concert.

Kayaking Seward Park

Will and I decided to take an impromptu picnic kayaking trip to Seward Park, where we kayaked the entire circumference of the island.

The horrible part was that I had to pee SO bad that I don't think I had ever kayaked that fast before in my life.  The sad part was I had to go even before we left the dock, but since there was no where to pee, I had to kayak my way to a bathroom.  When you've got to go, nothing will stop you from finding a way I guess.